TULSA, Oklahoma — After serving 24 years in prison for a rape he says he did not commit, a Tulsa County judge ruled that William Henry Jamerson no longer has to be on a sex offender registry.

Judge David Guten is the same judge who overturned Jamerson’s conviction earlier this year after Jamerson’s attorney, Dan Smolen, searched the Tulsa Police Department’s property room and found DNA evidence buried for decades.

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The State did not oppose the request. Jamerson was silent after the ruling, but told 2 News he was relieved.

“I feel better, better than I felt, blessed,” he said.

Kayleen Dubbs has a lot to say. In 1991, she was 16 years old and pregnant when she was raped outside a Tulsa restaurant (Ma Belle’s) where she worked. She feels the police forced her to blame Jamerson.

“They gave me his name, they showed me pictures of him, they fixed me up,” he explained. “The way they do it makes you feel like you’re wrong.”

For years he questioned the investigation.
“But who am I supposed to go to if the district attorney and the police are involved in all this?” she asked.

She said investigators convinced her to remain disengaged from the case. He didn’t even go to trial.

“I wasn’t allowed to watch the news, I couldn’t read the newspaper, weird, right?” She said. He said it felt like something told to a jury, not the victim.

Dubbs said witnesses named possible suspects as restaurant employees who didn’t show up for work the night of the crimes.

“There were two guys that called (to work) that night,” Dubbs said. “There was a guy who raped me and another who robbed the place. “They (the detectives) never interviewed them.”

“Now that I’m older and think about all this, I see everything they did,” he said. “I’m going to stay here until it’s all over and I’m not going anywhere.”
Jamerson’s attorneys say removing his name from the sex offender registry was unnecessary bureaucracy.

“That should have been done by the DOC (Department of Corrections) the next day because they knew everything about it,” said Allen Smallwood, one of Jamerson’s attorneys. “This is just the beginning of the justice we hope to get for him at the end of the day.”

Jamerson’s attorneys are filing a civil lawsuit. Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler is appealing his overturned conviction.

The Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office sent 2 News this statement:

Also at the hearing, another of Jamerson’s attorneys, Dan Smolen, asked the judge to reveal the Tulsa Police Department’s internal affairs investigation that led to the demotion of the police officer in charge of the property room where he was found Jamerson’s DNA, and Smolen. believe, deliberately hidden.

Smolen hopes the documents will shed light on who may have ordered the agents to conceal the DNA.

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